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CellarDweller:

--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 24, 2023, 06:19:09 pm ---I've decided my least favorite is the rendition of "Jingle Bells" that ends with the driver cracking the whip and the horse neighing in alarm (or pain).
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Oh, what about the Barbra Streisand version?

 :laugh:

if you haven't heard it, listen once, all the way through.

southendmd:
"Upsot??"


""Upsot" is a nonstandard dialect word that means to capsize, get turned over, or become upset. It was a 19th century device used to add rhyme and wit. For example, in the second verse of "Jingle Bells," the line "We got into a drifted bank/And then we got upsot" refers to the sled crashing into a snowbank."

Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: southendmd on December 18, 2024, 08:43:50 am ---"Upsot??"


""Upsot" is a nonstandard dialect word that means to capsize, get turned over, or become upset. It was a 19th century device used to add rhyme and wit. For example, in the second verse of "Jingle Bells," the line "We got into a drifted bank/And then we got upsot" refers to the sled crashing into a snowbank."

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Yes. It's used to rhyme with "lot," referring to the line about the horse, "The horse was lean and lank/Misfortune seemed his lot," earlier in the verse.

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